Dear Gilles Talis,
On Thu, 9 May 2013 10:30:27 -0700, Gilles Talis wrote:
> +SOCKETCAND_LICENSE = GPLv2
Are you sure? The only licensing information I can find is in
socketcand.c, and it says:
* Authors:
* Andre Naujoks (the socket server stuff)
* Oliver Hartkopp (the rest)
* Jan-Niklas Meier (extensions for use with kayak)
*
* Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
* software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
* Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
* GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
*
* The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
* are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.
So the license is either GPLv2 or BSD-3c.
Thomas

Dear Thomas Petazzoni,
No, I am not sure. And I agree with you, the license information for this
package is scarce and confusing. Arch-linux distribution tagged it as GPLv2
[1], and the package maintainer did not seem to disagree. This is why I
went with GPLv2. Would you prefer we did not add license information at all?
Thanks
Gilles
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/socketcand-git/
2013/5/9 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Dear Gilles Talis,>> On Thu, 9 May 2013 10:30:27 -0700, Gilles Talis wrote:>> > +SOCKETCAND_LICENSE = GPLv2>> Are you sure? The only licensing information I can find is in> socketcand.c, and it says:>> * Authors:> * Andre Naujoks (the socket server stuff)> * Oliver Hartkopp (the rest)> * Jan-Niklas Meier (extensions for use with kayak)> *> * Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research> * All rights reserved.> *> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions> * are met:> * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.> * 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors> * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software> * without specific prior written permission.> *> * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this> * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General> * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the> * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.> *> * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code> * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.>> So the license is either GPLv2 or BSD-3c.>> Thomas> --> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux> development, consulting, training and support.> http://free-electrons.com>

Dear Thomas Petazzoni and all,
2013/5/9 Gilles Talis <gilles.talis@gmail.com>
>> Dear Thomas Petazzoni,>> No, I am not sure. And I agree with you, the license information for this package is scarce and confusing. Arch-linux distribution tagged it as GPLv2 [1], and the package maintainer did not seem to disagree. This is why I went with GPLv2. Would you prefer we did not add license information at all?>> Thanks> Gilles>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/socketcand-git/>>> 2013/5/9 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>>>>> Dear Gilles Talis,>>>> On Thu, 9 May 2013 10:30:27 -0700, Gilles Talis wrote:>>>> > +SOCKETCAND_LICENSE = GPLv2>>>> Are you sure? The only licensing information I can find is in>> socketcand.c, and it says:>>>> * Authors:>> * Andre Naujoks (the socket server stuff)>> * Oliver Hartkopp (the rest)>> * Jan-Niklas Meier (extensions for use with kayak)>> *>> * Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research>> * All rights reserved.>> *>> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without>> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions>> * are met:>> * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright>> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.>> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright>> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the>> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.>> * 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors>> * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software>> * without specific prior written permission.>> *>> * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this>> * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General>> * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the>> * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.>> *>> * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code>> * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.>>>> So the license is either GPLv2 or BSD-3c.>>>> Thomas>> -->> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons>> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux>> development, consulting, training and support.>> http://free-electrons.com
All apologies for top-posting and HTML format. My gmail parameters
changed against my will :-(. I am fixing it now.
Hope this is better :-)
Gilles.
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